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Planet Glogsters

Our Science Glogsters are getting done!!

Colonial America Goods & Services

We are completing our projects! The students had to develop their own business that would be profitable during Colonial America. They had to bring in representations of what they would sell, complete with a sign for their business. Below are a few of the commercials they have made for their business.

Computer Science Rocks!!

Computer science is predicted to be some of the most in-demand jobs for the next few decades. So why not start learning about how to code early? Here is an example of what we did this morning. This was writing by one of our amazing 4th graders using code! Look for more great stuff to come...

Scary Stories

Block B had the chance to express their "scary" side! Check out Allison's scary story and follow us on YouTube to view the others that got a chance to share!

Onomatopoeia Rap

We are playing around some figurative language. Today we used Pop Rocks to help us develop some good writing utilizing onomatopoeia. Check out the rap Faith wrote!

Young Maysville Authors

We are beginning Young Maysville Authors this week! This is an opportunity for our fourth grade students to submit a writing they have worked on themselves. These writing are the product of our students t

Virtual Corn Maze

Check out this virtual corn maze! How fast can you make it through?

Meet Hooky

Civil Rights Wax Museum

Congratulations to the Guided Reading that put on a very successful wax museum today. We got to meet Sojourner Truth, President Wilson, Moses, and a whole lot more. Check out the video of the pictures from the day.

A New Tool!

We have been learning to use a new tool to show off all the knowledge we have learned this year! Check out our first Wideo that Casey created. Do you know what he is showing us?

Ecosystem ThingLinks

Today we started exploring ecosystems with ThingLink.com. Scroll over the picture to read more about Gwyneth's ecosystem. Then click here to view everyone's ThinkLink ecosystems!

Typing Club!!

Show off your keyboarding skills! Fly through the lesson and improve your words per minute. Remember, your goal by the end of the year is 25 words per minute. Click on the picture and type in your lunch number for the username and password to get started!

Bill Nye The Science Guy--Water Cycle

Check out Bill Nye's video on the water cycle. The test is coming soon!!

Rylee's Book Review

Babbling Explorers...

We just finished up our unit on European explorers. As a final project for this unit we made them come back to life...

Check Out Our First Glogsters!

Harvest Festival!!

Classroom of Collectors

We are continuing to build our vocabulary and make our speaking and writing more "expensive." We are now learning how to collect words and we began by writing and showing some things we already collect.

This week we will begin our word collections just like Selig and Donovan. Ask your student about these two kids and their collections.

25 Cent Words...

For the past two days we have begun building our vocabulary! We've discussed what makes a 50 cent word, and what makes a 25 cent word. As we build our vocabulary through the year expect to hear more difficult words being used by your child on a regular basis. Our goal is to make a lot of words that are worth 25 cents now be worth only 10 cents by the end of the year! (Ask your child what this means!)

Here are a couple of examples off of our vocabulary wall to give you a little insight into what we are doing...

25 Cents

50 Cents

Fractions, Fractions, Here They Come!

Check out this video from Khan Academy for a quick refresher on fractions!

Long Division--How To Video

A Journey Through Space

For the past two weeks we have been exploring space. We've learned about the planets and constellations. We've read and talked about Neil Armstrong and his historic ride through space. It's been an exciting couple of weeks!

Welcome Back!!

It's a new year and I am excited about what we are going to accomplish! This is a site for all of us, so come back often and see what we are up to!

And to get off to a great start this year you can help our school out by voting and helping us earn free money from Target!! Just click the picture and vote for MES.

Slowmation

We have been working hard the last few days on our slowmation projects, and now it's time to show off a little! One group has completed their's...check it out below. Also, keep an eye out for a few more in the coming days.

National School Breakfast Week Contest!!!

Hey Guys, check this out and let me know if you want an entry form!

National School Breakfast Week

The week of March 5-9, 2012, is National School Breakfast Week and this year’s theme is “School Breakfast - Go for Gold”. In an effort to highlight how eating a healthy balanced breakfast allows students to shine, Jackson County School Nutrition Department along with their Partner in Education, Funopolis Family Fun Center, is sponsoring a tee shirt design contest.

Students in grades 1-12 will have an opportunity to create a School Breakfast T-shirt highlighting the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast. Official contest entry forms will be available in the cafeteria and in the office of each school. Entries should be the original work of the student and should not infringe on any copyrights or trademarks by displaying commercial characters. Students who choose to use text in their design are limited to a three-word slogan, although text is not required.

Students may submit one design on the theme “School Breakfast – Go for Gold” at their school level of competition. Each t-shirt design entry must be on an official entry form. An entry submission gives us permission to use the student’s name and design on our webpage. Three students from each building will be announced as winners.

1st Place Winning Entry –$25Funopolis Gift Card

2nd Place Winning Entry –$10 Funopolis Gift Card

3rd Place Winning Entry _$5 Funopolis Outlet Gift Card

All students submitting an entry will receive a certificate good for one free attraction at Funopolis

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Today is Dr. Seuss' birthday! And we are celebrating with Read Across America Day. We are spending the day reading to ourselves, reading to each other, and being read too!

Dr. Seuss is probably the most well known author of children's books. But there are probably many facts you don't know about him. Check out Cat In the Hat.org and Seussville.com to find out more about the man behind the hat!

Horsin' Around!

Today we had a special visitor! I would like to introduce you to Butterscotch! He belongs to Austin.

Today is Ag Day at the high school and Butterscotch was on his way there. He made a detour by our school so we could get to know him and he can get a good sniff of us!

Check out some more pictures of our morning with Butterscotch below.

The NED Show February 9, 2012

Yesterday we had "yo" much fun! Ned came to visit with his favorite "yo" gal. We learned what it takes to be successful in life!

Check out some cool yo-yo tricks at his website and see what NED is all about!

The Moon is Made of Cookies! December 13, 2011

For the past week we have been learning about the Earth and Moon in Science. More specifically we have been learning the phases of the Moon and how it orbits around the Earth. Today we showed what we have learned about the moon phases using cookies! We loved it and did a really great job...check out the pictures below.

Babbling Explorers October 20, 2011

What a crazy past few days it has been!! We have been busy learning about early European Explorers in Social Studies. We've watched the videos, we've taken notes, and now it's time to have a little fun with them.

We are currently in the process of completing our projects using the website www.blabberize.com and we are loving it! Here is one example. Click here to see the rest!

Field Trip!!! October 17, 2011

In case you haven't hear we just took our first field trip of the year! We went down to the Harvest Festival in Athens and learned about life and times during the pioneering days. We tasted real churned butter, sewed our own pillows, and washed some clothes on a washing board! Life was hard back then and we saw how the simple tasks we have now do not compare to what had to be done then. Take a peek at some of our pictures from the day.

Quadrama Project Due Day September 27, 2011

Our Native American Quadrama Project was due today and wow did we do a great job! I was very impressed with all of our projects. They turned out so well. You can see some of the pictures below.

Great job everyone!

Finished Prjects!! September 20, 2011

We finally finished our Native American posters! Today we started presenting them. Here are two of our wonderful groups presenting their Native American tribes.

This group became experts on the Inuits.

Scan this QR code to view the video on your phone!

This group became experts on the Kwakiutl.

Scan this QR code to view the video on your phone!

Working Hard on S.S. September 19, 2011

Whew! It's been a hard past couple of weeks in Social Studies. We have been discussing Native Americans and how where they lived affected how they lived.

For the past three days we have been nose to grindstone on our group poster project. We divided into six groups and worked together to develop a poster for each Native American tribe we have been studying.

I am really looking forward to the finished projects being presented by each group. Pictures and presentations will be posted! Check back soon.

Our final culminating project will be an at home project. Look for a letter soon. You can go ahead and look here to get a preview of what the kids will be doing.

Math Fun for Unit 3 September 2, 2011

Alright, so I've discovered that we take some pretty serious tests in fourth grade...especially our math tests. So if you haven't checked it out yet there is a math page on our site. Just look up and find "Math" and click on it. There you will find study help and vocabulary for each unit. It's all there to help you have fun and study for these monster tests! So get to know multiplication and division now and check it out...Unit 3 is up now!

Instruments-Day 2

That Beautiful Sound...of Learning!

Today we started presenting our own handmade instruments! I knew we had some creative students, but they have just blown me away. Check out our first five presenters.

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Boomwhackers!!

In science these past few days we have been learning about sound. More importantly we have been learning about pitch, amplitude, volume, and frequency. We have been working hard!

Well...because we have been working so hard we had a "fun" day today before the test. Today we played with boomwhackers! They are just big plastic tubes of varying lengths that make differently pitched BOOMS. (Any boy do they boom!) While we "played" we discussed what causes the pitch to be different among the boomwhackers and what kind of pitch each one made. It was loud in our classroom today, but we had some fun while we learned!

In The Bag August 16, 2011

Recently one of our own was featured in the Jackson Herald. On the first day of school we were privileged to have a photographer from our home town newspaper come to our school to take some pics of the students on the first day of school.She came into our class and snapped a few shots and this wonderful picture of Carson was printed in the Herald. Congratulations Carson and to all the students for beginning the year on a wonderfully positive note.

You can see how we conducted our experiment here, just click play.

We learned a lot about how light can be used as energy and how it does more than just brighten up our day!

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This site is set up by Mr. Allen's 4th grade class at Maysville Elementary. Here you can find activities by students who will keep you up to date on everything happening in class, view pictures of special events here at class, watch videos that we make throughout the year, as well as encourage the students to always work hard by leaving comments. We look forward to your visits throughout the year!